Bibliographies
Bibliographies are organized by topic and can be accessed using the links below or the menu on the right.
Wildlife in Sagebrush Ecosystems
A searchable "Great Basin Bibliography" is available on the website of the Great Basin Information Project.
Recently Published Articles and Reports
Aanderud, Z.T., J.H. Richards, T. Svejcar and J.J. James. 2010. A Shift in Seasonal Rainfall Reduces Soil Organic Carbon Storage in a Cold Desert. Ecosystems 13:673-682. Available here.
Bates, J.D., K.W. Davies and R.N. Sharp. 2011. Shrub-Steppe Early Succession Following Juniper Cutting and Prescribed Fire. Environmental Management 47:468-481. Available here.
Cavaleri, M.A. and L. Sack. 2010. Comparative water use of native and invasive plants at multiple scales: a global meta-analysis. Ecology 91(9): 2705-2715. Available here.
Cline, N.L., B.A. Roundy, F.B. Pierson, P. Kormos and C.J. Williams. 2010. Hydrologic response to mechanical shredding in a juniper woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management 63(4):467-477. Available here.
Connelly, J.W., S.T. Knick, C.E. Braun, W.L. Baker, E.A. Beever, T. Christiansen, K.E. Doherty, E.O. Garton, S.E. Hanser, D.H. Johnson, M. Leu, R.F. Miller, D.E. Naugle, S.J. Oyler-McCance, D.A. Pyke, K.P. Reese, M.A. Schroeder, S.J. Stiver, B.L. Walker and M.J. Wisdom. 2011. Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse. Pages 549-646 in S. T. Knick and J. W. Connelly, editors. Greater Sage-Grouse: ecology and conservation of landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology No. 38. University of California, Berkley. Available here.
Davies, K.W. 2011. Plant community diversity and native plant abundance decline with increasing abundance of an exotic annual grass. Oecologia 167:481-491. Available here.
Davies, K.W., J.D. Bates and A.M. Nafus. 2011. Are There Benefits to Mowing Wyoming Big Sagebrush Plant Communities? An Evaluation in Southeastern Oregon. Environmental Management 48:539-546. Available here.
Davies, K.W., C.S. Boyd, J.L. Beck, J.D. Bates, T.J. Svejcar and M.A. Gregg. 2011. Saving the sagebrush sea: An ecosystem conservation plan for big sagebrush plant communities. Biological Conservation 144:2573-2584. Available here.
Davies, K.W. and D.D. Johnson. 2011. Are We "Missing the Boat" on Preventing the Spread of Invasive Plants in Rangelands? Invasive Plant Science and Management 4:166-171. Available here.
Davies, K.W., S.L. Petersen, D.D. Johnson, D.B. Davis, M.D. Madsen, D.L. Zvirzdin and J.D. Bates. 2010. Estimating Juniper Cover From National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) Imagery and Evaluating Relationships Between Potential Cover and Environmental Variables. Rangeland Ecology and Management 63:630-637. Available here.
Ellsworth, L.M. and J.B. Kauffman. 2010. Native Bunchgrass Response to Prescribed Fire in Ungrazed Mountain Big Sagebrush Ecosystems. Fire Ecology 6(3):86-96. Available here.
Henry, Ken. 2010. The Value of the Environment. Address to the Environment Business Australia Forum, March 3, 2010. Available here.
Hoffman, S, M. Brunson and S. Olsen. 2010. A guide to stakeholder groups for Great Basin sagebrush steppe restoration. Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Logan, UT. Available here.
Holmes, A.L. and R.F. Miller 2010. State-and-Transition Models for Assessing Grasshopper Sparrow Habitat Use. Journal of Wildlife Management 74(8):1834-1840. Available here.
Jacobs, B.F. 2011. Spatial patterns and ecological drivers of historic piñon-juniper woodland expansion in the American southwest. Ecography: online publication. Available here.
James, J.J., L. Ziegenhagen and Z.T. Aanderud. 2010. Exploitation of Nutrient-Rich Soil Patches by Invasive Annual and Native Perennial Grasses. Invasive Plant Science and Management 3:169-177. Available here.
Johnson, D.D., K.W. Davies, P.T. Schreder and A.M. Chamberlain. 2011. Perceptions of Ranchers About Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae (L.) Nevski) Management on Sagebrush Steppe Rangelands. Environmental Management 48:400-417. Available here.
Johnson, B.G., D.W. Johnson, J.C. Chambers and R.R. Blank. 2011. Fire effects on the mobilization and uptake of nitrogen by cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.). Plant Soil 341:437-445. Available here.
Knick, S.T. and J. W. Connelly, editors. 2011. Greater Sage-Grouse: ecology and conservation of landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology No. 38. University of California, Berkley. More information available here.
Kobayashi, M., K. Rollins and M.D.R. Evans. 2010. Sensitivity of WTP Estimates to Definition of 'Yes': Reinterpreting Expressed Response Intensity. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39(1): 37-55. Available here.
Kobayashi, M., K. Rollins, and M.H. Taylor. 2010. Ranching, Invasive Annual Grasses, and the External Costs of Wildfire in the Great Basin: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s 2010 AAEA, CAES & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 25-27, 2010. Available here.
Landis, Malieka. 2010. The effect of invasive annual plants on wildfire suppression costs. MS Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, NV. 78p.
Madsen, M.D., D.L. Zvirzdin, S.L. Petersen, B.G. Hopkins, B.A. Roundy and D.G. Chandler. 2011. Soil Water Repellency within a Burned Piñon-Juniper Woodland: Spatial Distribution, Severity, and Ecohydrologic Implications. Soil Science Society of America Journal 75:1543-1553. Available here.
Mazzola, M.B., J.C. Chambers, R.R. Blank, D.A. Pyke, E.W. Schupp, K.G. Allcock, P.S. Doescher and R.S. nowak. 2010. Effects of resource availability and propagule supply on native species recruitment in sagebrush ecosystems invaded by Bromus tectorum. Biological Invasions 13:513-526. Available here.
Miller, R.F., S.T. Knick, D.A. Pyke, C.W. Meinke, S.E. Hanser, M.J. Wisdom, and A.L. Hild. 2011. Characteristics of sagebrush habitats and limitations to long-term conservation. Pages 146-184 in S. T. Knick and J. W. Connelly, editors. Greater Sage-Grouse: ecology and conservation of landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology No. 38. University of California, Berkley. Available here.
McIver, J.D., M. Brunson, S. Bunting, J. Chambers, N. Devoe, P. Doescher, J. Grace, D. Johnson, S. Knick, R. Miller, M. Pellant, F. Pierson, D. Pyke, K. Rollins, B. Roundy, G. Schupp, R. Tausch, D. Turner. 2010. The Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP): A Test of State-and-Transition Theory. RMRS-GTR-237. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO. Available here.
Pyke, D.A., M.L. Brooks and C. D'Antonio. 2010. Fire as a restoration tool: a decision framework for predicting the control or enhancement of plants using fire. Restoration Ecology 18(3):274-284. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00658.x 11p. Available here.
Pierson, F.B., C.J. Williams, P.R. Kormos, S.P. Hardegree and P.E. Clark. 2010. Hydrologic vulnerability of sagebrush steppe following pinyon and juniper encroachment. Rangeland Ecology and Management 63(6): 614-629. Available here.
Pitkin, M. and L. Quattrini. 2010. Pocket Guide to Sagebrush Birds. Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and PRBO Conservation Science Independent Publication, 68 p. More information available here.
Rau, B.M., R. Tausch, A. Reiner, D.W. Johnson, J.C. Chambers, R.R. Blank and A. Lucchesi. 2010. Influence of Prescribed Fire on Ecosystem Biomass, Carbon, and Nitrogen in a Pinyon Juniper Woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management 63(2):197-202. Available here.
Reisner, M. 2010. Drivers of community dynamics in sagebrush steppe ecosystems: cattle grazing, heat, and water stress. Ph.D. Dissertation,Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Available here.
Rew, L.J. and M.P. Johnson. 2010. Reviewing the Role of Wildfire on the Occurrence and Spread of Invasive Plant Species in Wildland Areas of the Intermountain Western United States. Invasive Plant Science and Management 3(4):347-364. Available here.
Rollins, K., M.D.R. Evans, M. Kobyashi and A. Castledine. 2010. Willingness to Pay Estimation When Protest Beliefs are not Separable from the Public Good Definition. University of Nevada Reno Joint Economics Working Paper No. 10-002. Available here.
Vasquez, E.A., J.J. James, T.A. Monaco and D.C. Cummings. 2010. Invasive Plants on Rangelands: A Global Threat. Rangelands February 2010, pp. 3-5. Available here.